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God and Country

God and Country

America in Red and Blue

by Sheila Kennedy

Imprint: Baylor University Press

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

264 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.76 in

Hardcover
9781481314688
Published: December 2020

$44.99

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Paperback
9781932792997
Published: July 2007

$29.99

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Americans increasingly think in terms of red and blue. God and Country examines the religious roots of these cultural divisions in American political life. But instead of pitting a people of faith against a secular humanist elite, God and Country helps Americans understand the religious differences that divide, appreciate the public agreements that allow us to live with religious differences, evaluate how existing democratic processes alleviate divisions, and identify ways Americans can agree to disagree.

Acknowledgments

Part I: What is a Paradigm, and Why Does It Matter?

1 Habits of the Mind--Thinking in Red and Blue

2 America’s Religious Roots

3 A New Paradigm

Part II: The Democratic Dialectic

4 Conflict and Change

5 The Culture War Considered

Part III: Paradigm and Policy: Now You See It, Now You Don’t

6 The Usual Suspects

7 Religion, Wealth, and Poverty

8 Religion, Science, and the Environment

9 Sin and Crime

10 God and Country, Us and Them

Part IV: Living Together

11 Living Together

Bibliography

Index

Sheila Kennedy (J.D. Indiana University School of Law) is Associate Professor of Law and Public Policy at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

Kennedy deftly unravels the competing ideologies that keep us talking past one another rather than engage in meaningful conversation.
~Randall Balmer, Professor of American Religious History